Oops. My bad.
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terryclothTonight was Lance's Tuesday D+D game, wherein a complicated plan was devised, but before it could be put into action, I accidentally killed most of the party and disjuncted most of the rest. Then Wren saved the day by selling her soul, and the village was saved, and destroyed, and the bad guys got away.
The party spent a while on Devon shopping for all the things they'd need to assault Bast's pyramid ship. The plan was to fly in impersonating Shiva (the dead Go'uld whose ship they'd stolen), cast 'Mordenkainen's Disjunction' through the spell crystal, then dimension door inside Bast's ship and toss a dart-that-never-misses coated in the deadly poison they'd concocted the previous session at her. Then, while she was paralysed, they'd teleport her to the anti-go'uld device Bone had pointed them at and destroy her once and for all.
Somewhat to their surprise, they were able to find everything they needed, including a scroll of Fox's Cunning to allow Rey to cast Mordenkainen's Disjunction off the scroll. Total cost: 10,000 gold. However, Rey pointed out that they needed to visit the anti-go'uld device to 'lock in' its coordinates for the purposes of teleportation.
Largo, being the only non-tok'ra (tok'ra being a variant of go'uld) in the party, went ahead to scout it out, and reported that nothing was out of the ordinary. So the other four went through... and the statues he hadn't thought to mention came to life and teleported the four tok'ra into a magic-nulled maze of death full of flesh-eating go'uld. The only escape was to run through a device that destroyed their tok'ra, and even so Lan (the NPC) was killed and eaten.
The tok'ra, being the nobler half of each partnership, urged their human (et al) friends to save themselves, but upon emerging on the surface, bereft of their companions, Wren, Rey, and Ray'ia discovered that all their items hadn't just been suppressed, but disjuncted. All the scrolls they'd bought for the plan were gone, the armor they were going to use for the disguise was gone, their weapons were gone... Wren still had a cloak of elvenkind, and Ray'ia had her Handy Haversack, but that was it.
They also realized that the key to teleport up to the small pyramid ship they'd left in orbit around Devon was back in the maze with Lan, getting devoured. Although it had probably been disjuncted anyway.
They spent the night in the luxury suite on Devon they'd rented to ambush Shiva in, getting drunk, threatening suicide and homicide, and on several occasions coming to blows. In the morning, no one felt any better, but at least they had a plan.
Rey took one of the Wraith fighters they'd stashed on the frozen tundra on Chiron (Bone's world) and flew up to orbit to dock with the small pyramid. He wasn't really a fighter pilot, and sort of damaged the airlock trying to dock, but the knock scroll worked and (to his surprise and delight) a spare key had been left on the ship.
Meanwhile, Wren, taking the loss of her tok'ra very hard, went insane. She took the remaining fighter and flew it up to the dead moon using only her memory of how her tok'ra had flown it when they'd been together (and a lot of use magic device rolls), and was doing well until she crash-landed. Chiron, who'd been following her around (as she was the only living sentient being in the system at that point), restored her to one hit point and asked her what she thought she was doing.
"I'm getting my army," she replied, and proceeded to sneak into the castle, past hundreds of undead sentries, through the dark catacombs, to where the last undead master of Chiron waited for a successor to swear themselves to protect the system and take command of the undead army. Then proceeded to do so.
By the time Rey teleported back down with the key to the small pyramid, Wren was waiting with her army of undead arrayed on the frozen tundra, ready for the assault. Largo, who'd never been quite comfortable about undead, took off with most of the party's money to 'buy supplies', and was never seen again.
But the others followed through with the assault. Rey went through first, in a cloaked Wraith armed with helm-seeking missiles. He emerged into an ambush, but managed to get his missiles off and re-cloak before the enemy could destroy him, and hearing his frantic report endless waves of undead (and about a dozen more Wraiths, piloted by undead) followed him through.
Bast's pyramid was disabled, but Darien's pyramid, lurking behind the gate with a squadron of Death-Gliders, managed to escape by going into hyperspace inside the atmosphere -- with all the go'uld from both pyramids on it, thanks to the teleportation rings. The undead managed to overwhelm the ground troops, though, and the survivors surrendered after the party promised to return them to their commanders, as per the rules of war.
Of course, they were immediately sent to the death-maze. Since the plan was to send their commanders there as well, it wasn't *precisely* a lie.
Hundreds of pleasure-cats were rescued, and agreed to move to Chiron to colonize the empty world (rather than staying where they were to get destroyed by Darien and Bast when they returned to wreak their vengeance). Wren, now the de-facto ruler of Chiron, also accepted colony requests from the remaining humans of the Butte (discovered when she took the gate there to fetch through the crystal spider to build her a suitable palace) and from a group of high-tech halflings from 'a dying world'.
Ray'ia stayed to help the cats pack, and Rey went back to fetch the small pyramid-ship, whose spell crystal would be invaluable the next time they met Bast. He hoped. It also gave him an excuse to spend a week scribing new scrolls into his book, away from what he interpreted as the accusing stares of the rest of the party, although there was no way to escape the ghost of his tok'ra...
Largo stayed in hiding.
last week next week
The party spent a while on Devon shopping for all the things they'd need to assault Bast's pyramid ship. The plan was to fly in impersonating Shiva (the dead Go'uld whose ship they'd stolen), cast 'Mordenkainen's Disjunction' through the spell crystal, then dimension door inside Bast's ship and toss a dart-that-never-misses coated in the deadly poison they'd concocted the previous session at her. Then, while she was paralysed, they'd teleport her to the anti-go'uld device Bone had pointed them at and destroy her once and for all.
Somewhat to their surprise, they were able to find everything they needed, including a scroll of Fox's Cunning to allow Rey to cast Mordenkainen's Disjunction off the scroll. Total cost: 10,000 gold. However, Rey pointed out that they needed to visit the anti-go'uld device to 'lock in' its coordinates for the purposes of teleportation.
Largo, being the only non-tok'ra (tok'ra being a variant of go'uld) in the party, went ahead to scout it out, and reported that nothing was out of the ordinary. So the other four went through... and the statues he hadn't thought to mention came to life and teleported the four tok'ra into a magic-nulled maze of death full of flesh-eating go'uld. The only escape was to run through a device that destroyed their tok'ra, and even so Lan (the NPC) was killed and eaten.
The tok'ra, being the nobler half of each partnership, urged their human (et al) friends to save themselves, but upon emerging on the surface, bereft of their companions, Wren, Rey, and Ray'ia discovered that all their items hadn't just been suppressed, but disjuncted. All the scrolls they'd bought for the plan were gone, the armor they were going to use for the disguise was gone, their weapons were gone... Wren still had a cloak of elvenkind, and Ray'ia had her Handy Haversack, but that was it.
They also realized that the key to teleport up to the small pyramid ship they'd left in orbit around Devon was back in the maze with Lan, getting devoured. Although it had probably been disjuncted anyway.
They spent the night in the luxury suite on Devon they'd rented to ambush Shiva in, getting drunk, threatening suicide and homicide, and on several occasions coming to blows. In the morning, no one felt any better, but at least they had a plan.
Rey took one of the Wraith fighters they'd stashed on the frozen tundra on Chiron (Bone's world) and flew up to orbit to dock with the small pyramid. He wasn't really a fighter pilot, and sort of damaged the airlock trying to dock, but the knock scroll worked and (to his surprise and delight) a spare key had been left on the ship.
Meanwhile, Wren, taking the loss of her tok'ra very hard, went insane. She took the remaining fighter and flew it up to the dead moon using only her memory of how her tok'ra had flown it when they'd been together (and a lot of use magic device rolls), and was doing well until she crash-landed. Chiron, who'd been following her around (as she was the only living sentient being in the system at that point), restored her to one hit point and asked her what she thought she was doing.
"I'm getting my army," she replied, and proceeded to sneak into the castle, past hundreds of undead sentries, through the dark catacombs, to where the last undead master of Chiron waited for a successor to swear themselves to protect the system and take command of the undead army. Then proceeded to do so.
By the time Rey teleported back down with the key to the small pyramid, Wren was waiting with her army of undead arrayed on the frozen tundra, ready for the assault. Largo, who'd never been quite comfortable about undead, took off with most of the party's money to 'buy supplies', and was never seen again.
But the others followed through with the assault. Rey went through first, in a cloaked Wraith armed with helm-seeking missiles. He emerged into an ambush, but managed to get his missiles off and re-cloak before the enemy could destroy him, and hearing his frantic report endless waves of undead (and about a dozen more Wraiths, piloted by undead) followed him through.
Bast's pyramid was disabled, but Darien's pyramid, lurking behind the gate with a squadron of Death-Gliders, managed to escape by going into hyperspace inside the atmosphere -- with all the go'uld from both pyramids on it, thanks to the teleportation rings. The undead managed to overwhelm the ground troops, though, and the survivors surrendered after the party promised to return them to their commanders, as per the rules of war.
Of course, they were immediately sent to the death-maze. Since the plan was to send their commanders there as well, it wasn't *precisely* a lie.
Hundreds of pleasure-cats were rescued, and agreed to move to Chiron to colonize the empty world (rather than staying where they were to get destroyed by Darien and Bast when they returned to wreak their vengeance). Wren, now the de-facto ruler of Chiron, also accepted colony requests from the remaining humans of the Butte (discovered when she took the gate there to fetch through the crystal spider to build her a suitable palace) and from a group of high-tech halflings from 'a dying world'.
Ray'ia stayed to help the cats pack, and Rey went back to fetch the small pyramid-ship, whose spell crystal would be invaluable the next time they met Bast. He hoped. It also gave him an excuse to spend a week scribing new scrolls into his book, away from what he interpreted as the accusing stares of the rest of the party, although there was no way to escape the ghost of his tok'ra...
Largo stayed in hiding.
last week next week
